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Electronic water softeners e.g. Vulcan 3000 - how effective? (2023 Update)
I have moderately hard water and it would be good to use a water softener. I like the idea of an electronic one that doesn't add chemicals. It descale s the pipes and taps as I understand. Vulcan 3000...
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How does a volume control work now?
On car and home HiFi I have a knob to control the volume. It is not a variable resistor - it turns infinately. I guess is somehow creates a proportional and directional signal to the amplifier - but...
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Antique Furniture Care
We just moved into a house, where the prior owners agreed to leave several wood antique furniture items. The desk, maybe 200 years ol.d There is a "church bench" and a coffee table - each maybe 150+...
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Slalom
Is it so hard to park on the same side as other people?! Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!
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OT:YouTube "casting"
WE occasionally watch YouTube videos on our SmartTV, via it's app. I recently investigated the pair TV with smartphone (on my case tablet) app feature. Very impressed - nice to be able to control via...
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Intelligent AAA battery charger
I would like to buy an intelligent battery charger mainly for AAA batteries but also AA and Li-IOn 18650 would be nice, but not essential. Is there anything better than this 7dayshop product:
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3D Viewer on 3D TV
Does anyone know of any software that will take a 3D model (ideally from something like Sketchup) and display it on a 3D screen so that it can be viwed with 3D glasses? I don't necessarily want to do...
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OT: Global temperatures plummeting
or A couple of caveats: These are measurements made by satellite over land. Lower troposphere temperatures recorded by satellite have never shown the same rise in temperatures as the so-called and...
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Correct tool for the job Pt7
Went to some open day at a stately home yesterday which was full of phony s kint toffs, so decided to visit the Woolly Wolstenholme Memorial Bench. One of my boyhood heroes who played Mellotron with...
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Front wipers come on but won't go to back to park
I have a nissan almera tino 1.8 2005 my front wiper will come on but won't go off till I turn ignition off. Can someone help
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Greedy Braun
Originally it was possible to buy just the replacement foil for your Braun electric razor for about £5. Dear enough for a piece of pierced metal. Then they brougt a new improved razor but one could...
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Cabling behind dry walling
My daughter wants some cables for the TV buried in the wall which I am hopi ng to get away with just pushing them down in the gap. However it looks lik e I will need to add a spur socket behind the TV...
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Belt sanders - will cheap and cheerful do what I want?
I have a couple of doors on my boat and sundry other bits of woodwork that need the flaking varnish removed before starting again. I have detail sanders and an 'orbital' sander (doesn't go round and...
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OT: "All up: No reserves"
Looking at gridwatch and BM reports, I am reminded of the scene in 'Battle of Britain' in the RAF control room when someone asks 'what reserves have we got' and the reply is 'all up sir' Demand is...
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OT: Plastic moulding.
OT - but maybe less OT than most posts here. Old car has the common enough plastic lenses to the sidelights which are screwed in place. Just a plain plastic (of some sort) moulding. And they are...
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